Liberals Said This Wouldn’t Happen, Yet Here We Are

The jailing of Kentucky clerk Kim Davis for putting her faith above all else illustrates the fallacy perpetrated upon America this summer when liberal apologists insisted the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage would never force anyone to act against their principles, Phyllis Schlafly said in a statement issued Thursday.

“Barely two months after the Supreme Court invented a new constitutional right to same-sex marriage, a Christian has been sent to jail for refusing to issue a same-sex marriage license,” said Schlafly, founder and CEO of Eagle Forum.

“This imprisonment is a gross injustice, and a terrible abuse of power by the federal courts. Judicial supremacists should not be picking on a rural woman in Kentucky to try to assert federal authority,” she said.

“All Americans, including the Republican Party presidential candidates, must stand up now against the tyranny of judicial supremacy. We need legislation to rein in the overreach by federal courts,” she wrote, adding that Judge David Bunning, who ordered Davis jailed, should be impeached by Congress.

Schlafly said federal courts should keep their noses out of matters reserved to the states.

“Under our federal system of government, only the state of Kentucky would have the authority to order Kim Davis to resume issuing marriage licenses in Rowan County,” she said. “No federal law requires Kim Davis to issue marriage licenses, and the federal district judge, David Bunning, had no jurisdiction to rule on a question of state law.”

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Back in July, Schlafly had signaled her opposition to the court’s ruling allowing same-sex marriage.

“We ought to treat it like Abe Lincoln treated the infamous Dred Scott Case, when he said, okay, we have to accept what the court did to poor, old Dred Scott – said he had to be a slave – but we don’t have to accept that as the rule of the land,” she said then.

In her July comments, Schlafly discussed potential civil disobedience in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling.

“We just don’t believe in accepting what some judge says is the new law,” she said. “That’s just not the kind of country we live in. Remember, the Constitution starts with ‘we the people.’”